[ek_hornbeck]

There is no just argument for taxing Americans to fund the governments of other nations, regardless of your affinity for them.

When the US was dumping billions in aid to Sub-Saharan African countries (thereby helping to prop up governments like the ANC in South Africa), there was plenty of opposition to it from libertarians and conservatives. It's one of the many reasons I gag when people on both sides of the aisle call George W. Bush a "conservative."